SIMULATION OF ANTENNA RADIATION-PATTERN

Adequately modeling the radiation pattern of a high-performance antenn a system usually requires the expensive development of complicated ele ctromagnetic software or the storage of an extremely large number of m easured data. An alternative and efficient simulation technique is des cribed in this article using a spherical wave expansion model, which r equires the storage of a relatively small number of coefficients to de fine the function for the antenna's radiation pattern. (C) 1995 John W iley & Sons, Inc.